Chapter 8 - The Hite Report

Welcome

Welcome to the new official website for Shere Hite.

Shere Hite (born November 2, 1942) is an American-born German sex educator and feminist. Her sexological work has focused primarily on female sexuality. Hite builds upon biological studies of sex by Masters and Johnson and by Alfred Kinsey. She also references theoretical, political and psychological works associated with the feminist movement of the 1970s, such as Anne Koedt's The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm.

Over 7,000 men, ages thirteen to ninety-seven, speak out about: What they think of women--as wives, lovers, and friends; why a majority of men like marriage but are not faithful; what they think about love--and why they often distrust it; how they feel about giving women clitoral stimulation; why they often masturbate even with a regular sex life...and more. Shere Hite explains at the Harvard Kennedy School, October 14, 1981
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Her notable works include

• Sexual Honesty, by Women, For Women (1974)
• The Hite Report on Female Sexuality (1976, 2004)
• The Hite Report on Male Sexuality (1981)
• Women and Love: A Cultural Revolution in Progress (The Hite Report on Love, Passion, and Emotional Violence) (1987)
• Fliegen mit Jupiter (English: Flying with Jupiter) (1993)
• The Hite Report on the Family: Growing Up Under Patriarchy (1994)
• The Hite Report on Shere Hite: Voice of a Daughter in Exile (2000) (autobiography)
• The Shere Hite Reader: New and Selected Writings on Sex, Globalization and Private Life (2006)

Biography

IN 1976, A YOUNG grad student from Missouri dropped a bombshell into the bedrooms of the world, and blew apart our preconceptions about women’s sexuality. The Hite Report on Female Sexuality challenged the sexual status quo and defied male dominance. It became a worldwide publishing sensation, and turned its author into a hate figure among some men.
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